Word Finder - canteen

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A small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.

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A temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc.

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A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.

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A military mess kit.

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A water bottle used by a soldier or camper.

Two took his canteen and rose.

She lifted her canteen and allowed herself a swallow of the tepid water.

He wasn't going to leave until she did as he told her, so she removed the lid and tipped the canteen to her lips.

He placed a cool canteen on her lap.

He lifted a canteen from the saddle horn and took a drink.

Among later additions were gunmounting stores, boiler shop, boat sheds, canteen, coal stores, &c., together with a double dock 750 ft.

The soldiers lifted the canteen lids to their lips with reverential faces, emptied them, rolling the vodka in their mouths, and walked away from the sergeant major with brightened expressions, licking their lips and wiping them on the sleeves of their greatcoats.

She lifted her canteen from the wagon and took a mouthful.

With a little effort she located a canteen.

We spent much of the day in a classroom and stayed together as a group when visiting the canteen for tea and lunch breaks.

When we came out with the examiner he took us to a mobile canteen.

The museum offers refreshments in the refurbished old works canteen.

Personal Spends All inmates are allowed access to a certain amount of cash which can be used to buy items from the prison canteen.

Getting all your food from the school canteen in a tin, or from stalls on the side of the road, is great.

Search for Eco Canteen complaints on the Internet and you'll still find quite a few.

The Complaints Board website features numerous customer complaints about doing business with Eco Canteen, as well as a response from the company.

Insulated Tote - Eco Canteen offered a "free" bonus insulated tote with every water bottle purchased.

Customer Service - Consumers also report complaints about the Eco Canteen customer service department.

Consumers said that Eco Canteen would not let them contact customer service about their order until it shipped.

Because of the October 2010 injunction, Eco Canteen can no longer use advertising messages that focus on water safety.

Like the haversack, confederate canteens were often discarded and replaced by a captured Union canteen when the opportunity presented itself.

For daily living, soldiers carried a haversack, canteen, and mucket.

A belt would hold anything such as a canteen, cartridges, caps, rations and a blanket roll.

It wasn't wise to allow a canteen to go empty in this country, but the water supply was getting low.

He leaned down, handing her a canteen.

Bordeaux filled the canteen and headed into the sand again.

He took his bread and canteen of water—the morning sustenance for a slave—and tucked them into a cargo pocket.

He threw the canteen and it hit Two's cheek.

One handed her a water canteen, and she drank long and deep, not stopping even when another took her arm and pulled her forward.

While the men took pictures, she waited and drank from her canteen.

With a little more effort, she finally located a canteen and took a long drink.

One of his master's men—the one with the red eyes—shoved him away and took his canteen, dumping its contents.

We went to the canteen and low and behold who did I see sitting at a table, but my father's brother.

She herself is a member of the SVP Conference, which runs a canteen for 200 children every day.

We moved on to the factory canteen to eat.

The trust has closed the staff canteen to help save money.

Pegswood pit canteen was quite a small place and only supplied meals for a few of the workers.

Let me guess, tha'd left t ' mac in t ' canteen?

Many find the culture just not congenial, we need to address this canteen culture issue.

Each cutlery set comes complete with its own wood effect canteen to keep your cutlery set comes complete with its own wood effect canteen to keep your cutlery looking pristine for years to come.

There is a serving hatch into the canteen with its glass window broken.

The clientele makes it a kind of student canteen on a weekday lunchtime, ranging from frantic gossiping to would-be quiet study.

I recall my Uncle, Sonny Wainwright, was employed there as a watchman and my dear old Gran Wainwright worked in the canteen.

I knew I should have had something more than just a rather pitiful BBC canteen sandwich for lunch.

Each cutlery set comes complete with its own wood effect canteen to keep your cutlery looking pristine for years to come.

I think upper class snobs may find it a bit canteen hence the off reviews.

The worst thing is the food in the canteen!

There is no works canteen on site or place to make a cup of tea, only vending machines.

I had my meals in the canteen and shared a table with five elderly widowers who used the canteen on a daily basis.

After the French occupation in 1842, the building was used successively as a soap factory, a prison, a canteen, a parish church, and, lastly, as a museum.